>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> Is this new to 5.6 or have I just been ignorant this whole time?

new to 5.6, where they made qw() a compile-time syntax instead of a
runtime semantic.

Meaning that:

        $a = qw(a b c);

now puts "c" in $a, not 3 (with a warning about split to @_ deprecated).

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